Some of My Best Friends Are
Hosted by Dr Laurie Santos · Pushkin Industries
4.9from 592 ratings
- 67
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 592
- Ratings
- 2021
- First episode
- 812K
- YouTube views
About Some of My Best Friends Are
Some of My Best Friends Are… is a podcast hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s. Today a Harvard professor and an award-winning journalist, Khalil and Ben still go to each other to talk about their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. In Some of My Best Friends Are..., they invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up together in a deeply-divided country, and navigating that divide as it exists today.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Industries
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Jul 2021
- Latest episode
- 29 Jun 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 67 episodes have a transcript.
29 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
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From First America: Merciless Indian Savages
Published 29 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's not like you have to dig through the archives to find out that hunger for indigenous land drove the revolution. It's right there, in the Declaration of Independence, in one of our country's most famous documents. in one of the most famous documents in all of human history. But somehow no one knows about it? It feels like a magic trick, like making a rabbit disappear into a hat. And when I started this project, that's what I thought I was up against. The pervasive and systemic erasure of Native people from U.S. history. I thought the thing people couldn't see was me, my community. And then I started to realize what's missing from the story of America. […]
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- Ned Blackhawk
- Lili Taylor
- William Hanson
- Elias Weiss Friedman
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- YouTube views
- 812,267
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 406 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 186 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- Quality
- 86
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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